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Summary Of Understanding Trump By George Lakoff

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The text ”Understanding Trump” is a political commentary on Donald Trump by George Lakoff, who is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics of California at Berkeley. He uses different stylistic devices such as simile’s to convey and clarify his message to the readers. In the beginning of the text, Lakoff describes the two most common forms of family life in America, which are The Nurturant Parent Family (progressive) and the Strict Father Family (conservative). Lastly which is described as a family where the father knows best and the children do what he says. George Lakoff compares Donald Trump to the father in The Strict Father Family and the Americans as the children and further explains which mechanism Trumps uses to
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